Executive Board, President
Executive Board, Vice President
Executive Board, Secretary
Executive Board, Treasurer
Honorary Board Member
Writer in residence at Walt Whitman Birthplace, first poet laureate of Suffolk County. Author of 45 chapbooks of poetry and 7 albums of poetry/music. Editor of Poetrybay, Long Island Quarterly and Walt's Corner (The Long Islander). Winner of PEN OAKLAND Josephine Miles Poetry Award.
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Gayl was the Nassau County Poet Laureate 2009-11 and the Walt Whitman Birthplace 2016 Poet of the Year,, Gayl Teller is author of 7 poetry collections, most recently, Flashlight: New and Selected Poems (WordTech/ Cherry Grove) and editor of 2 poetry anthologies, Toward Forgiveness (Writer's Ink)-- awarded a NY State Decentralization Grant for the Arts-- and Corona (Whitman Birthplace). Director of the Mid-Island Y Poetry Series, Plainview, NY, from which 150 of her reviews of feature poets have been archived at the Plainview-Old Bethpage Library, she teaches at Hofstra University and is the recipient of many poetry awards.
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Linda Opyr was the Nassau County Poet Laureate 2011-13 and in April of 2001, received a Proclamation in honor of her poetry from the Suffolk County Legislature. She is the author of nine poetry collections, and her poems have appeared in Poetry Ireland Review, The Hudson Review, and The New York Times. She was a nominee for the 2025 Forward Prize for Poetry: Best Single Poem – Written.
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Pramila is the Co-director of Matwaala: South Asian Diaspora Poetry Festival, is the author of many poetry volumes, the most recent being We Are Not a Museum, winner of New York Book Festival award, and Exile is Not a Foreign Word.
Honorary Board Member
Lorraine Conlin was the Nassau County Poet Laureate (2015-2017). She is on the board for the Bards Initiative. As Special Events Coordinator of Performance Poets Association, Lorraine hosts events and readings at Sip This in Valley Stream and also at the Bellmore Bean Cafe. She has also created programs for Veterans and for Breast Cancer awareness throughout Nassau and Suffolk. “Tuesdays with Poetry”, hosted at the Bellmore Memorial Library for “Poets in Nassau, “ which is now in its 9th year. When she is not hosting, she attends workshops sponsored by the Long Island Poetry Collective (LIPC), the East End Poetry Group and the Long Island Writers’ Guild (LIWG). As a board member for the Long Island Poetry Collective, she edited several issues of XANADU and initiated “Super Poem Sunday” at the Walt Whitman Birth Association (WWBA). Lorraine is a U.S. Custom’s Broker at JFK Airport. Lorraine is a breast cancer survivor.
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Robert is a native Long Island poet, Suffolk County Poet Laureate 2015-2017, Bards Laureate 2019-2021, Board Member at the Walt Whitman Birthplace and at the Long Island Poetry & Literature Repository Center. He is the winner of the 2008 Oberon Poetry Prize, Association of Italian American Educators -- Cristoforo Colombo Award for Literary Leadership (2019), and Town of Islip Italian American Heritage Award for Visual & Performing Arts -- in Literature (2019).
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Peter V. Dugan was the 2017-2019 Nassau County Poet Laureate. He is a graduate of Chaminade High School, Mineola 1976, Farmingdale State College, Melville, NY Degree: Associate of Arts and Sciences 1995, and The New School for Social Research, NY, NY. Degree: Bachelor of Arts. He has published five collections of poetry and over the years, his poetry has been published in numerous anthologies and magazines both on-line and in print.
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Barbara is a visual artist and writer living in Miller Place, New York. The titles of her three books are: Remember, published in 2008, Time & Space, published in 2020, and Long Island Poems, published 2022.
Honorary Board Member
Alan Semerdjian is the 2024 – 2026 Poet Laureate of New York’s Nassau County. He is an Armenian American writer, a musician, and an educator. Recent recognitions include two Pushcart Prize nominations; a Frontier New Poets Award; poems in Poetry International; The Brooklyn Rail, Fence, and Hanging Loose (forthcoming); a tweet from Kim Kardashian that made his 2020 spoken word album The Serpent and the Crane ( with guitarist/ composer Aram Bajakian) viral for a day. Alan’s poem “The Writing About It Again” was part of a short, animated film (An Armenian Triptych: Retracing Our Steps made in collaboration with Bajakian and international visual artist Kevork Mouard) that won recognition in several film festivals. Pulitzer Prize winner Peter Bajakian has called Alan’s first full-length poetry collection, In the Architecture of Bone (GenPop Books, 2009), “well worth your reading.”
Honorary Board Member
Richard Bronson is an award-winning poet and author of five collections. He is also a board member of the Walt Whitman Birthplace Association and the Long Island Poetry Collective. Bronson is a faculty member at the Renaissance School of Medicine at Stony Brook University, where he bridges medicine and the humanities.
LIP&LR's Literature Ambassador of Long Island 2026-2028
Paula Curci is the co-founder of the Acoustic Poets Network® LLC. She is the co-founder of the Poetry: It’s a Shore Thing!® open mic, and its Micro-Memoir Anthology. She is the producer of Calliope’s Corner & What’s the Buzz ® on WRHU.ORG and a Poet Correspondent for The Scene. Paula is a Journal to the Self® instructor and a Nassau County Poet Laureate Emerita. Her Posics® poetry and radio program can be found online.
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Deborah Hauser is the author of Ennui: From the Diagnostic and Statistical Field Guide of Feminine Disorders (Finishing Line Press). Her poems and book reviews have appeared in Ms. Magazine, Women’s Review of Books, The Kenyon Review, Prairie Schooner, Bellevue Literary Review, Calyx, and Academy of American Poets Poem-A-Day, and elsewhere. She received a Pushcart Prize nomination from TAB: The Journal of Poetry and Poetics. She has taught literature and writing at Stony Brook University and Suffolk County Community College. She curates and hosts a monthly poetry reading series at for the Babylon Village Arts Council Jack Jack’s Coffee House.
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Chip is the director and co-host of Poetry Street, LILP&LR board member, also a member of Northport Arts Coalition and a Northport Arts Poetry Path Exhibit Sponsor, Ambassador for the poetry division of fuwimu.com (Fund With Music) Chip is a prose, poetry, and short story writer. He is a passionate equal rights advocate, filmmaker, documentarian, family historian, good listener, and relatable storyteller. For Chip's CV, please click on articles tab.
Honorary Board Member
(SAG-AFTRA, AEA) Greg is a professional actor, an award-winning director, professor, and published author. He is proud to announce the publication of his first full volume of poetry – Poetic Anarchy. His most recent chapbook, Summer Heat: Poems of Passion, was published in 2025 by Wyld Syde Press. His debut novel The Devil in the Diamond was released in 2023 by Henry Gray Publishing. Many of his stories have been archived in numerous libraries including Yale University’s Beinecke Collection (Rare Books and Manuscript Library). Greg is an Adjunct Professor of English at Long Island University, an Associate Professor of Literature & Composition at Post University, and he also teaches Creative Writing, Poetry, and Basic Acting at Nassau Community College. http://www.gandeproductions.com/
Editorial Board & Editorial Assistant
Mindy is an internationally published poet, writer, critic, and professor at SUNY Empire State University. She curates poetry selections for the Sculpture on the Trail arts event sponsored by the Center for Environmental Education and Discovery (CEED) and Inspiration Plus, Inc. She is the editor of Oberon poetry magazine and the author of Dismantling the Playground, Images of Miller Place, and Open.
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Anthony is a poet who writes in order to free the dove hiding under the hat of springtime. He lives in Oyster Bay, Long Island with his wife, daughter and King Charles Cavalier Spaniel (also, a female).
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Author, The Color Of Drowning Richard was born in Brooklyn New York, self-raised, self-taught. He does not write, he remembers. His pieces have been published in the journal of undiscovered poets, The Scene, Saving Ourselves by Dr Tammy Nuzzo-Morgan. He has published 4 books of poetry - Tales from the Orchard, Gifts from the Furnace, The Color of Drowning, Dancing in the Rain; and co-authored Her and His poems with Dr Tammy Nuzzo-Morgan. He was the first prize winner of the 2025 Long Beach Poetry Festival contest.
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Author of Mostly Round, But Rough David is a clinical psychologist and poet, living and working on Long Island. Over the past 10 years, he has re-immersed himself in reading and writing poetry. His poems have been included in two Wyld Syde Press anthologies, To Be Completely Honest: A Poetry Collection of Self-Examination and All the Men Came & Danced.
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Adam is the rabbi emeritus of Temple Isaiah, Stony Brook, NY is the author of numerous articles and two books of liturgy. He is also the author of a book of short fiction, and four books of poetry. He was the Poetry Editor of the CCAR Journal from 2006-2014.
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Editor of the Paumanok Trilogy Kathaleen is a graduate of St. Vincent’s School of Nursing in 1976, currently a Nurse Practitioner in Cardiology at Stony Brook University Hospital. Earned a M.A. in Philosophy while working 12 years in the Surgical Intensive Care Unit through the 1990’s. Single mother, son Keith. Opened and ran Whispering Wonders Child Care Center in Port Jefferson Village for 12 years. A member of the Sweetbriar Photography Club,
(7/29/42 – 11/30/24) Zikhrono Livrakha
Honorary Historian of LIP&LR
Robert L Harrison was the recipient of an APPRECIATION AWARD as HISTORIAN FOR THE LIP&LR (Long Island Poetry and Literature Repository) on May 30, 2024. He was a graduate of Hofstra and Stony Brook Universities.
Member
Nassau County Poet Laureate for 2009-11 and the Walt Whitman Birthplace 2016 Poet of the Year, Gayl Teller is author of 7 poetry collections, most recently, Flashlight: New and Selected Poems (WordTech/ Cherry Grove Collections, 2019) and the editor of two poetry anthologies— Toward Forgiveness (Writers Ink, 2011): awarded a NY State Decentralization Grant for the Arts, and Corona: An Anthology of Poems (Walt Whitman Birthplace Association, 2020). Director of the Poetry Series at the Mid-Island Y, in Plainview, for 25 years and a Hofstra University professor, she was selected as the Seventh Quarry Press Poet of the Month for February, 2022, in Swansea, Wales, and she has been the recipient of the Westmoreland Arts & Heritage Poetry Award, the Edgar Allan Poe Prize, a National League of American PEN Women Prize, the Peninsula Library Poetry Prize, a National Federation of State Poetry Societies Prize, the Artists Embassy International Poetry Award, and others. Her website: www.gaylteller.com
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Thaddeus Rutkowski grew up in central Pennsylvania and is a graduate of Cornell University and the Johns Hopkins University. He is the author of eight books of prose and poetry, most recently Safe Colors, a novel in short fictions. His novel Haywire won the members’ choice award from the Asian American Writers’ Workshop. He teaches at Medgar Evers College, Columbia University, and a YMCA and received a fiction writing fellowship from the New York Foundation for the Arts. www.thaddeusrutkowski.com
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Nina (Nanette) Yavel’s poetry has appeared in several collected works and international publications--Beyond Words, Bitterroot, An anthology of International Poetry; Nassau County Poet Laureate Review, Paumanok Transition. She was awarded first prize for poetry competitions sponsored by Barnes and Noble, The Owl in Garden City, The Park Slope Press and The Mac Street Journal. She helped found the Poets of Well Being. Her short story “Pinocle Game” and poem “Eve” were included in Risk Courage and Woman, a prize-winning anthology which featured Maya Angelou and other woman writers.
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v.j.(Vinnie) Calone, formalist poet. Vincent's a poet/dramatist. BA SUNY Oswego '95. He studied under Lewis Turco author, of The New Book of Forms. Vince’s poems have appeared in The Long Island Sounds Anthology, The Suffolk County Poetry Review, The Chiron Review, Atom Mind, Long Island Quarterly, Poetry X Hunger, and PoARTry among others. v.j.’s also the submission editor at THE SCENE poetry/art zine, a monthly magazine which covers poetry and the poetry scene from the bridges to the forks on Long Island. Lastly, he’s host of the GREEN SPACE poetry open mic every first Tuesday in Rocky Point, NY where he lives.
Presented by the Long Island Poetry & Literature Repository Hosted by the 2024 LIP&LR’s Literature Ambassador to Long Island Professor Mindy Kronenberg, Poet & Editor 1st Lecture: November 13, 2024 @ 7pm Mankh (Walter E. Harris III) Languages and Consciousness: Tools for Enhancing Your Writing and Lifestyle 1650 Sycamore Avenue, Suite 46 Bohemia, NY 11716 Long Island Poetry and Literature Repository (Please RSVP, Seating is Limited) The languages we grow up with reflect the culture we come from and the consciousness with which we experience the world around us; the way we speak and write reflects all of that. Mankh will share examples from different cultures past and present, including Indigenous languages which often have no word for time, thus, the past and future are present. Other examples include Chinese is a picture-language and the A-to-Z hierarchical alphabet derives from pictures, yet with modern English we have lost touch with what is actually being said, for example, Alphabet means " Ox House." Along with the bigger picture, Mankh will share tips for enhancing writing techniques with emotion, rhythm, and word/phrase choices. Mankh (Walter E. Harris III) – author-editor of 17 books ranging from poetry to essays to poetic nonfiction – is also a small press publisher and has helped produce more than 100 books. He has written more than 135 essays and doesn't keep track of poems. Mankh travels a holistic mystic Kabbalah-rooted pathway staying in touch with Turtle Island and the cycles of seasons. He enjoys music, meditation, munchies, and more. He teaches haiku, brush calligraphy, and the creative writing process. Mankh’s overall writings are typically a blend of reverence for/with Nature and various spiritual traditions; a disdain for the machinations of greedy belligerent geo-political egotisms manifesting en masse as empires. He aims to calm, shock, enlighten, and entertain the reader/listener into a deeper place of consciousness, a greater sense of life-purpose, and a caring for all beings and the evolutionary journey..... His Substack page is "Musings from Between the Lines" and his website:www.allbook-books.com
Long Island Poetry & Literature Repository is Proud to Announce Two Anthologies in One Book Launch! To Be Completely Honest: A Poetry Collection of Self-Examination & Some of the Best of Long Island Poetry 2024: Presented by LIP&LR (Poetry Contest Entrants, Contest Judges, and Gala Award Winners) When: Wednesday, September 25, 2024 Time: 6:30pm Where: Long Island University – Post Campus in the Auditorium of the Humanities Building 720 Northern Blvd, Brookville, NY 11548 (Take the 2nd entrance (not the big entrance) go to the stop sign, make a left, go about 50 feet and turn right, you will now be in the parking lot (you will see the humanities building on your left. Go up the walkway, go down the hall to the center, the auditorium is on your right.) Please RSVP attendance and # of copies you wish to purchase at the reading. Pre-Book Launch Contributor's price of $10.00 each. Thank you. If you are featured in both anthologies, you are welcome to read from both.
Menu: Buffet Sit-Down Dinner Salad: Fresh Mozzarella, Tomato and Basil sliced beefsteak tomatoes topped with fresh mozzarella and basil, drizzled with extra virgin olive oil and balsamic glaze. Chef's Carving Table: Angus Sirloin roasted and served with a choice of two sauces: au jus and horseradish. Gourmet Pasta Selection: Stuffed Shells classic pasta shells stuffed with mascarpone, ricotta and spinach with a pomodoro sauce made from tomatoes, garlic, olive oil and fresh basil. Buffet Selections: ~Roast Salmon lightly seared salmon prepared with herbs and a hint of lemon. ~Basmati and Orzo Pilaf asparagus, basmati rice, cranberry beans and orzo (vegetarian). ~Sirloin Tips Marchand du Vin beef slowly braised in red wine, shallots, and mushrooms. ~Chicken Francese buttery lemon-wine sauce envelops lightly battered chicken. Accompaniment: Garlic Mashed Potatoes mashed Idaho potatoes with roasted garlic and butter Dessert: Sheet Cake Drinks: Coffee, tea, brewed decaf, soft drinks, juice and water Cash Bar: Beer & Wine Only
Wyld Syde Press 1650 Sycamore Avenue Suite 46 Bohemia, New York 11716 Press Release Chasing Clouds A Collection of Poetry by Tammy Nuzzo-Morgan, PhD Link to Chasing Clouds on Amazon: https://a.co/d/hD18sOr The Long Way to Home: A Short Memoir by Tammy Nuzzo-Morgan, PhD Link to The Long Way to Home: A Short Memoir: https://a.co/d/j8xENYt Blurb for Chasing Cloud: Tammy Nuzzo-Morgan is a serious and devoted poet, her love of language is compelling and distinctive. There is range and generous spirit on many essential levels. ~Philip Schultz, Winner of the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, Failure Blurb for The Long Way to Home: A Short Memoir: If you happen to need a book that will move you to tears, Dr. Tammy Nuzzo-Morgan has written it—an absorbing and heartrending story of the multiple traumas of her early life and the long journey to face and surmount them. Lacking any permanent stability in her family life, victim of both physical abuse and incest, hobbled with fear and internalized self-hate, she survived for years by way of self-medicating, dissociation, and desperate attempts to flee. Already at age 30 she had lived through more than a score of broken relationships and losses, with more tragedies to come later in life even as she gathered strength through poetry, psychotherapy, and sheer force of will. We are fortunate to have her testimony, often in painful detail, which gathers coherence out of an almost unfathomable emotional chaos and follows the dizzying path of suffering all the way to compassion, love, and self-acceptance. From her inspiring account, the many who know these troubles in their own lives will recognize the patterns, the ways to survive against the odds, and how to recover lost hopes. ~ George Northrup, Ph.D. Psychologist & Poet Tammy Nuzzo-Morgan’s newest collections are: Chasing Clouds (Wyld Syde Press, 2024) The Long Way to Home: A Short Memoir (Wyld Syde Press, 2024). Her other publications include a children's book, Would You Hug a Porcupine (The North Sea Poetry Scene Press, 2022); Howling the Moon (7th Quarry Press, 2018); Life’s a Beach (Writers Ink, 2011); For Michael (North Sea Poetry Scene, 2008); Let Me Tell You Something (Street, 2006); One Woman's Voice (Street, 2005); The Bitter, The Sweet (North Sea Poetry Scene Press, 2004). Nuzzo-Morgan's dissertation for her Ph.D. was on The Healing Power of Poetry. She teaches at Long Island University in the departments of: English, Humanities, and Sociology. Some of her accomplishments: 2017 WWB Long Island Poet of the Year; Suffolk County Poet Laureate 2009-2011; Long Island Sounds Editor; Founder & President of LIP&LR The Long Island Poetry & Literature Repository - (longpoetryandliteraturerepository.com) 631-413-7702 cell Tammynuzzomorgan@gmail.com
Announcing the 1ST ANNUAL LONG ISLAND POETRY & LITERATURE REPOSITORY – (LIP&LR) POETRY CONTEST Open to all Long Island residents -- Brooklyn, Queens, Nassau, and Suffolk To enter, please send two copies of each poem, typed on 8-1/2 x 11 paper, one poem per page, with name, address, phone, email at the bottom of one copy only. No previously published poems please Line limit: 35 lines per poem All poems considered for possible inclusion in a forthcoming anthology Entry fee: $5 per poem or 3 poems for $10 No limit on the number of poems you can submit Postmark Deadline: March 15, 2024 Make check payable to LIP&LR and mail to: 1650 Sycamore Ave, Suite 46, Bohemia, NY 11716 Blind judging by a panel of award-winning poets Poems will not be returned No theme, open to all formats but please, no pornographic or racist poems Prizes for 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and two honorable mentions Winners will be awarded at the May 30, 2024 Banquet at Atlantis in the Sea Star South Banquet Hall 431 E Main St, Riverhead, NY 11901 Tickets available, $75 per person or $120 per couple For more info on the Banquet and/or contest, please contact Tammy Nuzzo-Morgan liplr2021@gmail.com
Long Island Poetry & Literature Repository (LIP&LR) is excited to announce the inception of the position, “Literature Ambassador of Long Island.” The ideal candidate will be entrusted to promote literature throughout Long Island. This will be a one-year post. The appointee is encouraged to conduct workshops, lectures, symposiums, readings, etc. at our center, as well as promote literature throughout the Long Island community as a LIP&LR representative and in conjunction with other organizations. LIP&LR will host a banquet in May 2024; the person appointed will be announced at that banquet. The honoree will receive a proclamation and crystal award in celebration of their appointment. Details concerning the banquet will be forthcoming in the following months. At the end of their term, the Literature Ambassador to Long Island will present a report to include how they promoted literature, enhanced communal harmony between organizations, and offer their recommendations for furthering literature on Long Island. All are welcome to be nominated, or to apply, as long as they reside on Long Island including Kings, Queens, Nassau, and Suffolk Counties. The person selected must be willing and able to serve all of Long Island. If you are interested in nominating someone, or applying for the post yourself, please email to: LIPLR2021@gmail.com the following information: Name Address Email address of the person Writing CV (including books, awards, positions held) Photograph Summary as to why this candidate would be a preeminent Ambassador for Literature on Long Island Sign it Please feel free to forward this email to all eligible persons. Thank you for your attention. The LIP&LR Board Tammy Nuzzo-Morgan, Ph.D. 2017 WWB Long Island Poet of the Year Suffolk County Poet Laureate 2009-2011 Founder/President of TNSPS Long Island Sounds Editor President of LIP&LR The Long Island Poetry & Literature Repository - (longpoetryandliteraturerepository.com) 631-413-7702 cell Tammynuzzomorgan@gmail.com